Asynchronous Programming for Spam Elimination

ttul writes: "Stas Bekman (formerly the maintainer of mod_perl) has been quietly building an asynchronous programming framework to build high performance network applications in Perl. His recent Perl.com article describes how he has used the Event::Lib module (that lives on top of the popular libevent library) to write a traffic shaping email proxy to get rid of spam. Asynchronous programming is challenging at the best of times. Read on to find out how to do it the easy way in Perl."